Cheapest petrol/diesel in Limerick City?

Interesting thread...ill follow it and see if it goes anywhere...

From the archives: Handy to have all these prices linked, I think.

From 2008

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2055341704/todays-cheapest-petrol-thread

From 2015

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2057361830/cheapest-petrol

Is Pumps.ie still working? I know it was very handy when it was kept updated in the past

Possibly, as you are the OP here, Knock yourself out on these:

https://www.macrotrends.net/1369/crude-oil-price-history-chart

https://www.statista.com/statistics/262860/uk-brent-crude-oil-price-changes-since-1976/

https://www.statista.com/statistics/262858/change-in-opec-crude-oil-prices-since-1960/

https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=pet&s=f000000__3&f=m

https://markets.ft.com/data/commodities/tearsheet/summary?c=Brent+Crude+Oil

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_oil_crisis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_oil_crisis

Now, my own t'uppence - I believe it's called "re-establishing the base" or "re-basing the market", however I think the second term applies to services rather than commodities. Either way, someone wants to raise (Ahem, re-establish the base) the price of oil and they don't care how they do it - be it through embargos for supporting a war, opposing a war, or engaging in war (read -special military operation perhaps in this case) - and all depending on your point of view.

Anyway as you will see from the charts the rise of the muscle car to the equally environmentally destructive act of lithium mining and you can see for yourself how someone as insignificant as ourselves pay no part (apart from squeezing us for a few more bob) in deciding how much things cost.

I'll finish by paraphrasing (forgive me it may have been the Saudi King, or it may have been Adnan Khashoggi - I can't find the quote, however I read it back in 1992-ish) and they claimed that $30 a barrel would grease the wheels of global enterprise for y(t)ears to come.

Have fun

Brian

there's new app out now called pumphunt created by a boards.ie member

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058251246/pumphunt-fuel-price-search#latest

it would have to go well below $100 to see any significant price drops at the pumps, and that isn't going to happen anytime soon😕

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that's what the emoji's are for 🙂 😉 😜

Getting back to the Point of this thread. Cheapest I’ve seen is 192.9/l for Unleaded in the Ballyneety service station. Didn’t catch the diesel price. As oil is now well under $100 fuel hopefully prices could drop some more in the coming days.

Stations compete against each other on the road they're on(no surprise). Circle K for example text their competitors pricing to the Area Manager(relative is Circle K employee who does this daily) who tells them then what to set their price at. So far what I've seen, Circle K for example, the cheapest is often the first Circle K on the dock road and the Ennis road, followed by Thomondgate, and Corbally. As Groody is now an Indy(express) then they set their own.

Ballysimon seems to be avoided like the plague(or covid, but we know how that worked out, avoiding it). In one case it was cheaper to buy Diesel Plus from the Ennis road than buying regular Diesel from Ballysimon.

As I've a Circle K fuel card I get 4c off per Litre but I still watch them like a hawk. Yes, if one station is 1c cheaper then my 50 litre tank isn't much of a difference to cross the city for it but where somebody is taking the p*ss I will avoid them all the time.

Also, Ballysimons monolith(big pricing sign) was out of action for 3 days(maybe more) so you didn't know till you parked at the pump.

I was convinced that petrol in Ballyneety (garage opposite the Stroller bar) was 1.74 yesterday. Must check again on the way home!